PUBLICATIONS:
1.Leenath Thomas, Kausala Sithamparapillai, Thomas Alex Kodiatte, Felix Jebasingh, Sumita Danda, Santhos E. Kumar & Ashish Goel.Very long‑chain acyl‑coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency —A rare monogenic steatotic liver disease presenting with acute liver injury in adulthood: A case report and brief review on nutrition management. © Indian Society of Gastroenterology. 12th February 2025.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12664-025-01739-x
2.Effect of pre-transplant vitamin D level on liver transplantation outcome; Protocol for a systematic review; CRD42023489304
Shalika Kurukulaarachchi, Kausala Sithamparapillai, Dileepa Ediriweera, Madunil Niriella;
December 2023;
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42023489304
3.Kausala Sithamparapillai, Uday Zachariah, C E Eapen, Ashish Goel
Plasma exchange improves survival in acute liver failure – An updated systematic review and meta-analysis focused on comparing within single etiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12664-024-01557-7
4.Kausala Sithamparapillai, Samaranayake and V.P. Wickramasinghe Growth monitoring of Infants in an urban area of Sri Lanka – A Clinical Audit.
Journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine – 24th August 2022
https://jpgim.sljol.info/articles/10.4038/jpgim.8385
5.K. Sithamparapillai, D.Samaranayake and V.P. Wickramasinghe Timing and pattern of growth faltering in children up-to 18 months of age and the associated feeding practices. BMC Paediatrics – 11 April 2022
https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-022-03265-7
6.Gamage, K. Sithamparapillai, S.N. Perera, Randula Ranawaka, Renuka Jayatissa; Prevalence of malnutrition in children with congenital heart disease awaiting cardiac interventions at a tertiary care setting in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Journal of Cardiology, Volume 1: Issue 2 – January 2019
https://slcc.lk/2019/03/14/sri-lankan-journal-of-cardiology-volume-1-issue-2-january-2019/
GUIDELINES:
Contributed to the preparation of National Dietary and Physical Activity Guidelines for selected Non-communicable diseases;
https://www.ncd.health.gov.lk/images/pdf/circulars/6th_December_2022National_Dieteary_and_Physical_activity_guideline.pdf
OTHER PROJECTS:
External Consultant for the research project titled ‘Assessment of acceptability of locally produced Ready-to-Use Therapeutic food in Sri Lanka’. This community-based study was conducted by the Department of Nutrition, Medical Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka and was funded by UNICEF.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
80th Anniversary Annual Scientific Sessions of the Jaffna Medical Association on the 30th October 2021. at the Symposium on Optimizing nutritional health; Topic – ‘Enteral Nutrition Therapy in Critically ill’
DISSERTATION:
Timing and pattern of growth faltering in children up-to 18 months of age and the associated feeding practices; Kausala Sithamparapillai, D. Samaranayake and V.P. Wickramasinghe; PGIM, University of Colombo – 2023
ABSTRACTS:
- Kausala Sithamparapillai, Mathanki Sooriyakanthan, Sivapalan.K; Dietary and Physical Activity Practices and Body Composition of Medical Students in the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Annual academic sessions of the Jaffna Medical Association – 2023.
- Pujitha Wickramasinghe, Dulani Samaranayake, Kausala Sithamparapillai; Growth faltering during first 18 months of life in a cohort of children in an urban area of Sri Lanka and the associated feeding practices
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF NUTRITION in Tokyo, Japan – December 2022.
- Sithamparapillai, D.Samaranayake and V.P. Wickramasinghe; Timing and pattern of growth faltering in children up-to 18 months of age and the associated feeding practices;
23rd Annual Scientific Congress of the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians; January 2021;
This poster presentation won the award ‘Best poster of the congress’.
- Sithamparapillai, D.Samaranayake and V.P. Wickramasinghe; Feeding practices during the first Eighteen months of life. Annual Scientific sessions of the Nutrition society of Sri Lanka – 2021
https://nutritionsocietyofsrilanka.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Abtract-booklet-2021_Final_1.pdf
- HKD Jayaweera, K Sithamparapillai, P Wickramasinghe; Successful enteral nutrition in an infant with high-output ileostomy with short bowel – A case study
5th Clinical Nutrition Annual Academic Sessions, Sri Lanka Medical Nutrition Association – 21st November 2020
- P. Gamage, K. Sithamparapillai, S.N. Perera, Randula Ranawaka, Renuka Jayatissa; Prevalence of malnutrition among children under 12 years with congenital;
heart disease, admitted to the cardiology unit at a tertiary care setting in Sri Lanka; Second Clinical Nutrition Annual Academic Sessions – 2017. https://slmna.lk/uploads/uploads/b46ddb43a2f69acabe51729eafbf0f30.pdf
- Ranasinghe PDB, Wimalasekera SW, Kaththriarachchi LS, Logenthiran PV, Wimalasiri IU, Sithamparapillai K; Effects of exposure to dust and exhaust fumes on lung functions of road workers Annual scientific sessions of Physiological Society of Sri Lanka – November 2016.
